Javarrion Chism, 6, watches the mosquito control truck pass by his house in Shreveport's Queensborough neighborhood in 2012.

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Courtney Spradlin
Gannett Louisiana

The first of the mosquito season's cases of West Nile virus were found last week in Livingston Parish, but there is another mosquito-transmitted illness being monitored by health officials.

The Center for Disease Control and state health departments are monitoring cases of Chikungunya, a virus that causes high fever, joint and muscle pain and headaches.

The virus has been reported in 153 cases linked to international travel, said Kristen Norlund, CDC spokeswoman, "meaning someone went to a place where the virus was circulating, got infected and then came back." ...